SPORTS
Saint Jo has a busy week ahead
The Saint Jo Panther boy’s program has a busy week ahead.
Not only does the baseball team play arch nemesis Dodd City in the area playoffs, but the track team is sending four members to compete in the state meet this weekend. Dodd City is in the same boat which is why the series is scheduled for the days before.
Game one is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. on May 12 at Bells High School. Game two will start 30 minutes after the end of game one. If game three is needed, it is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. on May 13.
The state track meet 1A running events are scheduled to start at 5 p.m. on March 14 at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin.
The Panthers’ baseball program does not have a lot of history behind it. While there is talk there was a team sometime in the 1980s, it was not until the last seven years or so Saint Jo has fielded a consistent team.
After a few false starts and a year taken off, the program has been fielding a team every year since 2017. The first year the team predictably struggled, winning one game and losing to Vernon Northside in the playoffs.
The next year started the program’s slide as being one of the steadiest 1A programs in the area, routinely giving some 2A teams a run for their money. It also was the farthest playoff push as the Panthers beat Northside this time along with Savoy.
It was then Saint Jo first played Dodd City. The Hornets won that series and have every year since in the playoffs against the Panthers minus the 2020 year due to COVID-19.
By now, it is a cliché that every sport at Saint Jo needs to break through and beat Dodd City in the playoffs at some point to take the next step. The volleyball team did in 2017 to start their four year stretch of making it deep in the playoffs. The boy’s basketball team have in recent years too.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
Bellevue’s girl’s basketball team led at halftime but a quick 9-0 Jacksboro run in the opening moments of the second half would prove the difference in a 28-25 Lady Eagle loss June 15 in a Nocona Summer League game.
Leading 12-9 at the half, Bellevue continued to shut down the inside game of the Tigerettes. Jacksboro switched tactics and began firing from outside. Three 3-pointers in the span of just under two minutes gave Jacksboro an 18-12 lead.
Bellevue kept things close, however, getting on the second half scoreboard with Mattie Broussard’s basket and free throws cutting the deficit to two, 18-16. A Haven Jones 3-pointer put the Lady Eagles up 19-18 midway through the second half.
The Tigerettes had just one 3 -pointer the rest of the way but got inside for a pair of buckets to take a 25-21 lead with 4:50 to go. Both offenses shut down late.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Most school-age athletes start off playing everything. By the time they graduate, they whittle it down to just one or two.
New Bowie girl’s track and overall cross country coach Shawnda Childers is no exception. While at Iowa Park she competed in volleyball, cross country and track before cutting out volleyball and focusing on track and cross country to close out high school.
Childers did not stay with athletics while moving on to Midwestern State University, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s Degrees. After graduation, shestarted coaching in Electra. She came to Bowie for one year, then went back to her old stomping grounds in Iowa Park where she spent the next four years.
The return home also put her in contact with now-Bowie Coach Griffin Fields, who was a coach there at the time. From Iowa Park, she spent the next three years at City View.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
New Saint Jo Girl’s Basketball Coach Grant Gooch isn’t completely unfamiliar with the area.
“We went to Muenster quite a bit when I was a kid,” Gooch, who will be going into his 20th year as a coach, said. “We’d load up the cooler from the meat markets. It’s good to be back.”
Gooch worked with Saint Jo Athletic Director CJ Hantz when the pair were in Throckmorton. Gooch comes to town from Menard where he spent three years at the West Texas school.
Gooch says coaching and education kind of come naturally to him.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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